Organisers have given details of the displays which will feature alongside the RAF Red Arrows on the weekend of June 1 and 2.

They include helicopters, jets, aerobatic displays and an Army parachute team.

The new attractions listed for the show are the Royal Navy Black Cats, RAF Chinook Display Team, Strikemaster Display UK, The Blades, Twirlybatics, FireFlies Aerobatic Display Team, and the Tigers Army Parachute Display Team.

The Fireflies specialise in displays in which fireworks trail from the wingtips of their aircraft.

The RAF offering previously confirmed includes the Typhoon Display Team, Tucano Display Team and Battle of Britain Memorial Flight featuring a Spitfire, Hurricane and Dakota.

The Tucano T1 fast-jet trainer will be appearing at the show for the first time.

Watch the Red Arrows in action at last year's show above and below

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Torbay Air Show, based on Paignton Green, is one of the biggest events of its kind in the UK and is traditionally the first of the season for the Red Arrows.

The show started in 2016 and last year attracted an estimated 165,000 visitors.

Its future was in doubt when the mayor withdrew a £90,000 subsidy due to cutbacks but businesses have stepped in with financial support to ensure the event goes ahead.

Andy Styles

Royal Navy Black Cats

The Black Cats are a helicopter display team in Wildcat helicopters.

The Team started in 2001 as the ‘Lynx Pair’ and have been the first official Royal Navy flying display team since the ‘Sharks’ disbanded in the mid-1990s.

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Winning several awards over the years, the Black Cats are requested to display all over the UK and at many European air shows.

The aircrew and engineers are all volunteers from 825 Naval Air Squadron and the Lynx Wildcat Maritime Force based at the Royal Naval Air Station Yeovilton in Somerset.

The name ‘Black Cats’ is derived from the fierce cat depicted on the now disbanded 702 Naval Air Squadron emblem and the term ‘blackcatting’ which is naval slang for one-upmanship – doing or owning something better than someone else.”

The RAF Chinook Display Team, based at RAF Odiham in Hampshire, aims to demonstrate the RAF Chinook's capability.

As well as part of the RAF Chinook Display Team, the crew are also part of a fully operational Squadron where they combine their daily training with practising their display sequence.

The Chinook is an extremely capable and highly versatile support helicopter that can be operated from land bases or ships, in environments from the Arctic to the desert or jungle.

It can carry up to 55 troops or around 10 tonnes of mixed cargo.

The Pitts Special S1 at Torbay Airshow 2018 (Image: Andy Styles)

Strikemaster Display UK

The Strikemaster is operated by North Wales Military Aviation Services Ltd. The BAC 167 Strikemaster is a British jet-powered training and light attack aircraft, developed from the Hunting Jet Provost trainer and first flown in the 1960s.

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The Blades are one of the UK's premier display teams, renowned worldwide for performing dynamic and cutting edge aerobatics, and the recently formed Red Bull Air Race Blades Racing Team.

As well as being one of the UK's top aerobatic teams, The Blades are the only display team in the world that can offer passengers the opportunity to fly close formation aerobatics. This will be their 14th season.

Andy Styles (Image: Andy Styles)

Flying their high-performance Extra EA-300 unlimited aerobatic aeroplanes, the Blades will wow the crowds with a combination of close-formation flying and exciting aerobatic solo sequences – with some new manoeuvres added into the display for the 2019 season.

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Based in Cornwall, the iconic Pitts Special is the perfect aerobatic bi-plane for entertainment. Watch this beautiful Pitts Special roll, dive and loop the loop, all enhanced by trail of aerobatic smoke. The display will include an artistic mix of highly skilled, technical aerobatics manoeuvres, spectacular low level beat-ups and graceful aerial ballet.

The RAF Typhoon Display Team will be returning to the Torbay Airshow for 2018 (Image: Torbay Airshow)

Fireflies Aerobatic Display Team

As well as daytime displays, the team can offer fully aerobatic dusk displays, with the use of pyrotechnics, creating a spectacle that only a handful of people in the world are able to provide. As well the wing-tip pyrotechnics, the aircraft also have coloured LED lighting along the aircraft fuselage to make them really stand out from the crowd.

People of all ages are expected to flock to the 2018 Torbay Airshow

The Tigers Army Parachute Display Team

The Tigers were formed over 20 years ago and are firmly established as one of the UK's top parachute display teams. The team has been very successful in competitions, performing at events such as the British National Parachute Championships and the World Parachute Championships.

The Tigers are the flagship team for the Princess of Wales’s Royal Regiment, whose seniority stems from the Tangier Regiment of 1661 and thus has the distinction of being the senior English Infantry Regiment of the line.

Soldiers of the Regiment are recruited from Kent, Surrey, Sussex, London, Hampshire, Isle of Wight and the Channel Islands. Members of The Tigers consist of volunteers from various battalions of the regiment.